r is short for archive

For decades, descendants of the people who built Great Zimbabwe were told by colonial archaeologists that they couldn't possibly have built it. This despite all the evidence & Zimbabwe meaning 'houses of stone' in the Shona language.

The ancient aliens industry applies the same logic to Sacsayhuamán in Peru.

Yet nobody questions who built the impressive structures in Rome or Greece.

Sunday's Drystone Diary will explore Whose History Is Worth Keeping?

#DrystoneDiary #Nature #Writing #History

Blogged about the time I doubled our users by doing proper engineering instead of React slop

https://www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/

GitHub Authentication issues related to API requests

Let me try and translate that... they tried to do something about spammers, and told CoPilot to change the login code, and keep spammers out. Surely the agents, with production logs and databases at their disposal can figure out how!

So CoPilot went, looked all the tombstone repos announcing a move to Codeberg, or a self-hosted forge, and reduced that down to "GitHub bad". As such, noone shall log in.

In this author's opinion, this ain't a bad outcome. They should keep it this way.

#algernonReviewsHackerNews

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and I want to note here that neither Apple nor the EC is a good guy here, because the right answer is “fuck no you can’t include a spyware LLM in your OS” and that’s not on the table on either side

the EC’s problem is that Apple gets a monopoly on the spyware

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI…

@zsolt @uzakl @tragivictoria @EUCommission @gklka Bzzt. The cookie alert is malicious compliance. If you respect your users, you do not need a cookie alert.

The correct thing to do is respecting your users.

If you see a cookie banner, it is due to either of these things:

• "We and 1k partners with legitimate interest" bullshit.
• Someone who doesn't know it's only mandatory if they abuse tracking.

The regulation is fine. Malicious compliance is what hurts the end user, not the regulation. You do not relax regulation because of malicious actors. You make it stricter and fine them.

This might be the first ligature-driven “smart” font I like because it’s clear that you’re not actually meant to use it in a text editor or any other WYSIWYG app – it’s only for a coding text editor (the input is JSON). Clever.

https://franktisellano.github.io/datatype

pronouncing lua as lúa since 2015

Rhododendron doing its thing outside, furball inside.

Love how some people are impressed with computer fixers, as if half the job wasn't a random search through the space of plugged in / unplugged, powered on / off states of everything.

And when you figure it out and proudly tell your friend/boss/customer/client/exasperated partner "I fixed it!"

"What was wrong?"

"I don't know!"

People think I’m a kook when I buy refurbed video conferencing screens to use instead of consumer TVs.

https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/

Imagine something that in 2020 didn't really exist but has so exploded onto our environment that in 2030 it will demand the water of 1.3 billion people and the electricity of 2 billion.

In a time when we have a global historic severe drought and when our civilization is about to collapse due to over-consumption of energy.

This is AI.

This is Big Tech

These are the tech bros. Here to burn it all down for greed and ambition.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167658

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@civodul salut camarade !

Je n'aime toujours pas le style de Lordon, son ton m'apparaît imbuvable donc j'arrive péniblement au bout... Bref.

Cet article est un peu long mais j'ai trouvé cela plus facile à lire et tout aussi intéressant. 😁

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

Piouf mais c'est long. 😉

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Stanford tracked over 4 million applications across 156 employers.

Here's the study:
Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

https://algorithmichiring.github.io/

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The “It’s Inevitable” Mindset Considered Harmful

I really don’t like the mindset of “if X Corp hadn’t gone evil, someone else would have.”

If you want a freer world - in software, hardware, or society in general - you have to act against whoever tries to go down the restricted path. Who did it first, second, or fiftieth, doesn’t matter. Whether someone else would have, doesn’t matter. Your “it’s inevitable” mindset is a self-defeating tactic and self-fulfilling prophecy.

Would you also justify, I don’t know, murder or sexual assault the same way? “If I hadn’t done it, someone else would have”? 🤦‍♀️

Just because “normies” don’t know or care about monopolistic practices (yet), doesn’t make those practices acceptable. If people don’t understand or care, it’s your failure to communicate and convince.

Instead of adopting defeatist ideologies that benefit the capitalists, improve your messaging and community till software/hardware/data freedom becomes a worldwide ideology, and monopolistic practices (like proprietary software, centralized services, etc) are either outlawed, and/or become grounds for mass shunning and boycotts, if not worse.

#contraLibre #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #FOSS #OpenSource #OpenHardware #Privacy

For those interested in fooling around with niche compiler technology and programming languages: Here's a fun sketch of a correctness proof for Hare's sort::inplace stdlib function through symbolic execution of the QBE intermediate representation emitted by the Hare compiler.

https://notes.8pit.net/notes/y7n8.html

#HareLang #QBE #Compilers

夜にてり輝く美しい形の山梨の富士山です​:sheep_furi:​